Quotes Tagged With :mathematician

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they....

A mathematician says that an electromagnetic wave travels from Andromeda to your eye and that it also....

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk....

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it....

... That little narrative is an example of the mathematician’s art: asking simple and elegant questions....

The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great,....

If there is anything like a unifying aesthetic principle in mathematics, it is this: simple is beautiful.....

I entered Princeton University as a graduate student in 1959, when the Department of Mathematics was....

No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science,....